25 Days of Cookies for Your Holiday Baking: Day 11, Triple Ginger Cookies

Every day in December through Christmas, we’re sharing a cookie recipe. Forget the 12 Days of Christmas—these are the 25 Days of Cookies.

The ginger snap is a classic cookie: it’s got crunch, it’s got spice, it packs a great molasses taste. You’d have to be a fool to tamper with something so self-evidently great. But these, friends, are the 25 Days of Cookies, and we do suffer fools gladly—we’ve had too much sugar not to.

The marathon cookie eater has a jaded palate; a plain old ginger snap simply won’t do. The triple ginger cookie ups the ante by calling for an unusually high number of ginger ingredients. It uses minced, crystallized ginger; then there’s your ground ginger, because, well, why not; and of course, to finish, you must add finely grated fresh peeled ginger. You’ll have to check our math there (again, we’ve been eating a lot of cookies and things are starting to get sort of blurry, cognitively speaking) but we’re pretty sure that adds up to three.

There’s no escaping the flavor. You need to exercise caution; there’s plenty of ginger in these cookies, but there’s nothing gingerly about them.